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Is there a way to have standard boot-up be the stock firmware?

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Slam:
Thanks for your warnings, but i still want to try. What would i need to change?

[Saint]:
How committed to this are you?

First of all, you're going to need to set up a development environment.
I'm guessing you're using a Windows based host (because it is statistically highly probable), which means you're going to need to use a virtual machine¹ in order to run a unix based host within your current system.

Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to use CygWin or Interix compatibility layers².

Once you have a development environment  set up and are capable of compiling your own binaries, we'll go from there.


[Saint]


¹ - For this, you'll probably want somewhere in the order of at least 2GB RAM and 2GHz dual core CPU that supports virtualization natively, else it will be agonizingly slow.
² - These are not something I would recommend to someone taking their first steps in development at all. You would almost certainly need to undergo quite a bit of effort to get Rockbox building under Cygwin these days (I don't think any active developer uses it, because quite frankly it is terrible), and it is woefully slow and inefficient compared to a virtual machine.

Slam:
I'm downloading the virtual machine now. I'd say I'm pretty committed.

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